Unless you live in a cave, you must already have heard of the global ChatGPT phenomenon. In any case, the famous chatbot has not escaped the notice of the major Chinese tech players who also intend to do well by surfing on this phenomenon.
The chatbot is the AI not to be missed when you are a big tech player, and this, since the explosion of ChatGPT. And this, whether you are an American company like Google or one of the Chinese giants in the field like Alibaba, JD or Baidu. The Middle Kingdom counter-attacks and will adopt this technology en masse.
Baidu in locomotive
In recent weeks, when we hear about artificial intelligence, we first think of conversational agents, like the already legendary ChatGPT. And in this field, the most innovative companies are Google, with its new Bard, and obviously Microsoft, which has already presented the integration of the chatbot into its Bing search engine.
And it is, it seems, the voice to follow, whether on the side of the GAFAM, or, on the other side of the Pacific, for their equivalent the BATX. Baidu was thus the first to draw, and is already working on the construction of an autonomous application, which will then be followed by the fusion of this technology with its search engine. Enough to panic big names like Alibaba or JD.
China at the time of the ChatGPT frenzy
Because if Chinese Big Tech companies are protected from the advances of their American competitors, they are not from local players. Alibaba’s entry into this business sector came as no surprise. The leader in online commerce in China has announced that it is currently in the internal test phase for a tool similar to ChatGPT. According to the 21st Century Heraldthe chatbot could eventually be integrated into the DingTalk messaging application.
The other local e-commerce behemoth, JD, has also communicated on its progress in the sector. If the Beijing-based company does not want to make its own conversational agent, it wants to integrate ChatGPT methods into its services. Will chatbots soon be a staple of shopping on the web?
Source : Reuters (1), Reuters (2)
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